Tilapia/Trout fillet....

[ConcinusMan]

It's not BS. Coal plants have been spewing methyl mercury into the atmosphere for quite some time now. It ends up in the water and on up the food chain. It's not beaurocratic BS, it's science.

Living off the land is fine and dandy, but the land is tainted now. Almost no place on earth is unaffected.

[Chondro788]

It's not BS. Coal plants have been spewing methyl mercury into the atmosphere for quite some time now. It ends up in the water and on up the food chain. It's not beaurocratic BS, it's science.

Living off the land is fine and dandy, but the land is tainted now. Almost no place on earth is unaffected.

Do you not think over time our bodies will adjust? Isn't this what evolution is all about? I believe that yes there are more toxins now then 1,000 years ago, but since we are introduced to these toxins (some of which are purposely put into our food) from day one, I feel humans will adapt over the coming centuries and thrive on what is available. I worked in a microbiology lab for years and you would think I would be a germophobe, but actually the exact opposite happened. I realize there are nasty bacteria living everywhere, but we as humans come in contact with them, and with a strong immune system, fight them off. Now Mercury may not be the same right now, but I believe over many years it could be. The body is constantly adapting, and nature never ceases to amaze me.
Think about thousands of years back. I am talking before 10,000 BC We were hunter and gatherers. We did not grow crops to eat, and very little of our diet came from anything other then meat, berries, and nuts, maybe some grains but not many. There was no agriculture back then. Now they want us eating as much grain as we can possibly put into our bodies? Why? I would guess the because our meat is not near as pure and lean as it was way back when we actually hunted out our meat instead of growing them in small cages with growth hormones only ensuring the fat content will be through the roof.
Sorry to get so off topic, but I find human diet to be an interesting topic, and I do feel we are fed lies from our own FDA about what we should and shouldn't eat. Much the same as the lies we are fed about oil and other natural resources...

[ConcinusMan]

Do you not think over time our bodies will adjust?

No, I do not. We'll adjust about as well as the dinosaurs and other species of the genus Homo did. Nobody on earth is immune to mercury poisoning. Your idea that our bodies will adjust through some sort of evolution or natural selection, assumes that someone can survive the poisoining and pass that immunity on to his offspring. That's not going to happen. And the scary thing about mercury is, it's here to stay. It doesn't break down. The only way to get it out of the environment is to lock it back up where it was in the first place and just how long did it take to do that before? How long did it take to make that coal we're digging up and releasing into the atmosphere? Hundreds of millions of years, that's how long.